Birdhouses

A few people asked me where I took the picture of the birdhouses. They are on my walking loop through downtown Hillsborough. One of the historic houses has a small driveway on the side of their house. They have lots of nice roses in beds in their yard and the collection of cool birdhouses at the end of their driveway. I just smile everytime I see them. I have this walking loop that I like to do down to a small street called Margaret Lane that runs along the Eno River. The loop from our house to Margaret Lane passes by many beautiful historic homes with leafy trees and interesting yard art. The first part of the walk is a net downhill and obviously the second part is uphill. I like that, because well, I like hills alot. Sometimes we do the loop after dinner too because Locopops, the place that sells homemade palletas or popsicles, is on Margaret Lane. Right now, the Hillsborough public library is about halfway between our house and Margaret Lane, but they are building a big new library on Margaret Lane right next to Locopops. I do really enjoy the walks around town - watching the flowers come and go, the leaves change, and the others walk their loops.

I'm sitting in the clinic waiting for my labs to come back for the day. If things are turning around, then my counts will be coming up. My bone marrow will be manufacturing all of those necessary components that fill me with vim and vigor. I hope that I've already reached the nadir from this last round of chemo and that everything is on its way back up. If we get a break from the clinic, we'll go to Asheville at some point this w-e.

This is a cool piece of yardart that doesn't come out well in the photo. Hopefully you can see metal flower at the end of the tall pole. It turns in the wind producing a changing pattern of flower with time.

Just got my labs, the white cell count is just a smidge lower than last time at 0.3 but the platelets are holding at 21,000 and hemoglobin at 9.0. They have to decide whether to have me come back Sunday or Monday. Arggh! I can to keep (re)learning that I am not in control. We were commenting on the drive in about how this leukemia teaches you patience.